Systems Engineer I
- Full-time
- Technology CF Job Family: System Engineering
- Group Function: Tesco Technology
Company Description
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
Job Description
About Tesco
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customers’ favourite place to shop at home in town or on the move anywhere in the world.
Our continuous drive for the best tools and technologies helps us to deliver this vision. We’re driving innovation and transforming our technology solutions to become one of the world’s leading retailers.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers: passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards.
In return we offer an exciting environment in a world class technology department an excellent benefits package and amazing career development opportunities.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you!
The position will be based at our Tesco Technology Bengaluru Office Whitefield.
About the Tesco Technology Monitoring Capability Team
The Application Performance Monitoring Team is one track within the Monitoring Capability Team in which a mixture of Product Owners and System Engineers collaborate to: own their product roadmaps drive continuous improvements to our monitoring platforms and innovate to meet the changing needs of the department. By doing this we support the rest of Tesco Technology to monitor the health and performance of their varied technology stacks delivering fast and accurate insight.
The team’s primary responsibilities are to roll-out maintain and improve our enterprise APM suite and our synthetics testing solutions.
The role: System Engineer I – Application Performance Monitoring Team
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities:
•Help application teams to adopt our tools efficiently and correctly in order to maximise the value for them
•Identify drive and deliver service improvements across our tools
•Be actively involved in incident management problem management and root cause analysis in order to help maintain high levels of service availability and performance
•Help to continuously improve the monitoring of our own tools and platforms for continued service excellence
•Engage stakeholders across Tesco Technology to understand their requirements and deliver customised solutions to meet their evolving needs
•Provide training and education to our Tesco Technology colleagues around the world
•Help to build documentation for training and support across all our products
•Engage with the support and product teams from multiple vendors to drive issue resolution and influence product decisions
•Identify opportunities across the monitoring ecosystem to help drive better value for Tesco
Key skills and experience
You’ll need to demonstrate:
•Experience implementing configuring and maintaining an enterprise APM solution
•Experience creating meaningful reports and dashboards
•Experience using pre-built and custom-made extensions to enhance the capabilities of an APM solution
•An understanding of the differing challenges and opportunities that different programming languages bring ideally with some coding experience
•A strong understanding of the common metrics used for application infrastructure end-user synthetics and database monitoring
•Operational experience to support root cause diagnosis and incident resolution
•Familiarity with synthetics testing and Selenium
•Experience working with RESTful APIs
•Good working knowledge of a scripting language (ideally Python3)
•Experience working in an agile environment
•Experience working in a DevOps team
•Experience working with cloud technologies particularly within Azure and AWS
•Windows and Linux system administration tasks
•An understanding of why various security concepts such as Single Sign On (SSO) Role Based Access (RBAC) and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) are important
•Willingness to engage customers and stakeholders to understand their specific needs and requirements
•An understanding of automation and the benefits is can bring
•Familiarity with container technologies
About you
The individual we are looking for will:
•Be able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
•Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills tailored to differing levels of seniority and technical understanding
•Be a flexible and independent worker able to manage their work in a dynamic environment
•Find new trends in technology exciting and be keen to explore them
•Be energetic open and transparent in all that they do